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- ↑ Guardian website Portrait of the artist: Sunand Prasad, architect 13 July 2009 (retrieved 2011-10-19)
- ↑ CABE press release 25 July 2006
- ↑ Independent on Sunday October 2008 [ dead link ][ full citation needed ]
- ↑ "No. 64082". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2023. p. B15.
